Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm tree with Linus' tree

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Sep 13 2013 - 16:34:42 EST


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 04:25:48PM -0400, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> Yes. And I found the opposite bug in one place: when we are collecting
>> dentries by walking the parents etc, we do *not* hold the global RCU
>> lock,
>
> ??? LRU list lock, presumably?

Heh, yes. You wouldn't believe how many times I mis-typed "lru" as
"rcu" while doing that patch.

Much of the other dentry work this merge window was all about rcu, so
my fingers end up being confused..

Linus
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